Thomas Charles Lethbridge
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Thomas Charles Lethbridge (1901-1971) was a British explorer, archaeologist and psychic researcher.
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[edit] Life
He was educated at Wellington College before attending Cambridge University at the age of eighteen, where he discovered an interest in archaeology, and once he had completed his degree he began working as a voluntary digger for Louis Clarke, the curator of the Archaeological Museum in Cambridge. Although he had a private income, Lethbridge ended up becoming the keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the museum, and he remained in Cambridge until 1957, bored with what he called “the academic trade-unionism” that existed within his profession. During this time he wrote a series of books about British history. These, however, are generally eclipsed by the much more famous, and controversial, series of books he wrote at his home, Hole House, in Branscombe, Devon between 1961 and his death in 1971. Mr. Lethbridge claimed there is a link between the length of a pendulum and the object being looked for, (see 'external links' below).
[edit] Occult studies
Lethbridge was a dedicated, strictly rational researcher who considered matters known as 'the occult' with an admirable scientific approach and his theories on ghosts, witchcraft, dowsing, psycho-kinesis and even aliens were presented in a calm manner.
The pinnacle of Lethbridges life's work, the book The Power of the Pendulum documents his research into the skill he and many others possess - dowsing by means of the pendulum. Through intelligent experiment he drew conclusions with solid developments, developed theories, and eventually built theories on life after death that seem to be more like a conclusion to a matter which has held humanity's fascination for millenia.
Later works by others on the subject have never strayed far from the implications and solid developments brought out in this work.
Lethbridge died while this book was still in draft form, leaving his readers and fellow occultists with the irony that maybe he discovered whether his theories were right. While the media bombards us with unsound research and hastily drawn conclusions, that the research in this book has been so ruthlessly under-exposed is a great pity.
This work is a conclusion to the author's lifelong study of the worlds of the unexplained and the occult. Through his experience with the pendulum and his work with dreams, Lethbridge concluded that there are other realms of reality beyond this one and that the soul is probably immortal.
[edit] Bibliography
- Umiak 1937
- Merlins Island: Essays on Britain in the Dark Ages 1948
- Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas 1950
- Coastwise Craft 1952
- Boats and Boatmen 1952
- The Painted Men: A History of the Picts 1954
- Gogmagog: The Buried Gods 1957
- Ghost and Ghoul 1961
- Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion 1962
- Ghost and Divining Rod 1963
- ESP: Beyond Time and Distance 1965
- A Step in the Dark 1967
- The Monkey’s Tail: A Study in Evolution and Parapsychology 1969
- The Legend of the Sons of God: A Fantasy? 1972
- The Power of the Pendulum1978
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